Treating AI review like the contentious policy design problem it is

🫧 Open on Bubbles This is Jessica. Many researchers are thinking about what we should do about scientific peer review now that AI makes producing papers so much easier. Submission numbers keep getting higher — in the past week, I saw reports that the most recent ACL submission cycle got 17k+ submissions, up from ~10k last cycle. TMLR went from getting 500 submissions every 60 days or so to getting the same number ever 19 days. There are simply not enough human reviewers to handle the surge, at least not wit